Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle tells us his top five spots around the Isle of Man TT Course
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00:00Hi and welcome to the Isle of Man TT 2024. My name is Richard Milky Quail. I'd like to tell you my five top spots really.
00:07I've got some secret ones as well which hopefully you'll like to go and watch.
00:12But if I tell too many people then it's not going to be secret anymore.
00:15So basically top five. Starting with number five is pretty much going to be the Cregna Bar for number five.
00:21Cregna Bar is ace. It's a long straight obviously coming towards the right hand 90 degree corner.
00:27So you can either watch on the way into the corner or the way out of the corner.
00:30But you're seeing the bikes for plenty of time because ultimately that's the problem with the TT.
00:34You know you're going 200 miles an hour so 200 miles an hour you don't see the bike for long.
00:38Whereas at the Cregna you've got time to see the boys coming in, braking, slowing down and going back out of the corner again.
00:43So really good facility also because you've got plenty of refreshments there.
00:47You can actually get to the corner off the track as well so you don't have to get there first thing in the morning and stay in there all day.
00:53You can come on the back road so that's a real good spot to watch.
00:56Good parking as well so you can park your bike up, park your car, take your rug, take your radio, sit on the hedge and watch the boys go away.
01:02So that's going to be number five.
01:04Number four would probably be... I'll probably go for number four for the Bottom of Bray Hill.
01:13Because Bottom of Bray Hill again everyone just goes oh yeah it's the best place in the world and it is.
01:16It's really really good and it's fast and stuff but it's not my favourite spot to watch.
01:21It's good because again it's super fast and it scares you and you think Jesus but yeah it's still good.
01:28Again you can get to it when the roads are closed, you can still get there and bounce.
01:32And again there's a little burger bar there and stuff and it's quite close to the grandstand so that's good to watch.
01:36So that would be number four I would say.
01:39Number three, it's quite an obscure one, number three is Crosby Church.
01:44Crosby Church is amazing, you can get on the little wall there and again you can get to it when the roads are closed
01:50because you don't have to come up the railway line and over the hedge.
01:52It's a bit of a scramble but you can get there before, it's really good.
01:56Just get on that little wall and we are going past you at 200 miles an hour.
01:59200 miles an hour! There's nowhere in the world you can do that.
02:02You're literally sat two foot from the hedge so that's a real good one, a little bit different.
02:09And then number two has got to be Harold's Gorsleigh.
02:12Fantastic, honestly if you ever get a chance go to Harold's at Gorsleigh.
02:16But you have to get there early, you know on a race day you've got to be there at six o'clock in the morning to get a good spot.
02:20Maybe even earlier, five o'clock in the morning so that's a real real good one.
02:24And probably my most favourite, which is my own personal favourite, is the waterworks.
02:32Just as you come out of the Ramsey Hairpin and stuff, go up to Ramsey Hairpin, through the waterworks,
02:38just before you get to the Gooseneck, just there, it's fantastic.
02:42Because there's not many people there, not many spectators, you're right on the hedge.
02:45Just before you turn into Waterworks 1, you can literally, I'm opening the road up so I come right to the hedge and then back in again.
02:51So you are literally a metre away from the lads.
02:55You can literally touch them if they come past so that's my personal favourite.
02:59So hopefully if you get a chance you can get out and watch one of those places.